“Thanks Ena, for letting me train here. Because of you I'm much stronger and confident than I was before.”

Ena starts smiling. Kuragami does also.

“It was my pleasure. You’ve sure grown a lot since you first came here.”

Kuragami smiles. Ena is reminded of someone else. She grabs Kuragami to her chest and hugs him.

"Lucky guy.”

Ena starts to feel embarrassed. She pushes Kuragami away swiftly.

“Ena.”

“Yes?”

“This won’t be the last time you see me, I’ll be back.”

She smiles. Kuragamj and Keikena leave the temple.

Back in Seichō Forest.

“You did it Sasaki! Look at this giant crater!”

“I done it. I finally done it. That one move sensei done a long time ago. Why would he tell us not to use a technique as strong as that?”

“Apparently it’s the technique of a guy who was banished from The Disciple World during the Age of the Ancient Swords.”

“And that’s got nothing to do with me. I’ll use this technique to become as strong as I can be.”

“Yeah whatever. Show me again!”

“Alright. I feel weird when I do it through. My aura changes colour too. I’ll actually stick to my other techniques for now.”

Sasaki raises the aura inside his sword and attempts to do the move again.

“King of Wolves Slash!”

The guy next to him dashes in front of the attack, brings out his sword and does a technique similar.

“What the hell Bokura?!”

Bokura smiles. Both of the attacks collide, creating an explosion.

“Let's see how strong you are Sasaki. It's been a long time since we fought.”

Bokura is very fast. He dashes to Sasaki and swings his sword. Sasaki blocks and swings back. They both keep blocking and attacking in different directions.

Sasaki jumps back.

“Giant Wolf Fangs!”

Sasaki raises his aura and unleashes a large wolf shaped attack. Bokura barely evades it.

“Not bad.”

“Blazing Sword!”

Bokura raises his aura in his sword and it starts to burn. He slashes multiple times. Burning slashes fly towards Sasaki.

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Sasaki runs towards them and dodges effortlessly. He is now right in front of Bokura.

Sasaki's aura starts concentrating in his sword. His aura turns purple.

“Dolorem Cut!”

The technique hits Bokura, causing the fight to end. Bokura gains a large cut on his body, causing him to drop.”

“Guess I'm still not stronger than you.”

“Your pathetic.”

Sasaki puts his sword back in its holder.

“A couple days of hard work payed off. I'm stronger than I have ever been.”

Sasaki looks at Bokura on the floor. He walks up to him and crouches down.

“I'm gonna pick you up. Yuri will know what to do with you.”

Sasaki holds Bokura and takes him to Seichō Town.

Kuragami and Keikena make it back to the Water Section. Kuragami stretches.

“We're back home.”

“Yeah. It feels like so long.”

“I wanna see how much I really improved. I wanna fight someone strong like Sasaki.”

“Was Genko not strong enough?”

“Nah.”

“I see. Well you go ahead and go home. I have some things to do. Be safe out there Kuragami.”

“Yes sir!”

Kuragami runs home to Satlanta Town.

“Sayo!”

Kuragami sees Sayo walking home. She is holding a bag full of shopping. He runs over to her

“Kuragami!”

Kuragami gives Sayo a big hug.

“Where were you? You were gone for so long.”

“I went out to train with Keikena. Now there's two weeks left till the Shorai Skirmish. There's still some room for more training.”

“So what will you do?”

“I will practice using my Ice Coating. I can't use it for very long so I need to master it.”

“No way. You learnt Coating at such a young age. How, that's impossible!”

“Long story. But I want to rest for today and tomorrow I'll go train.”

“That's fine. I'm making lasagne wanna help?”

“Yeah!”

They both walk home together to make lasagne.

Back at Fumetsu Island.

“This letter says ‘meet me at the forest east of the island if you want to find out how to defeat the Shadow Disciples’.”

Yuuto got a letter a few days ago.

“So I’m here, now what?”

“So the guy was right. YUUTO!”

“What?”

Yuuto looks back and is thunderstruck.

“I should've known it was a set up. Kyoya!”

Kyoya is standing on a hill looking down on the whole forest. He is a Shadow Disciple, just like Yuuto.

“Listen here you traitor. I'm gonna kill you right here right now.”

“Why the hell would Genesis send his little brother to come after me?”

“Genesis didn't. I came because you’re a traitor. I want you dead. We don't need Shadow Disciples who don't obey Genesis.”

Yuuto knows that Kyoya is way stronger than him.

“I have to run. There's no way I can win.”

Yuuto starts running deeper into the forest.

“You can run Yuuto but you can't hide!”

Kyoya manipulates all the forests shadows and combines them into one in his fist. The shadows turn into aura. He powers up that aura in his fists and creates a giant Shadow Ball that replicates the moon. While running, Yuuto looks back at the ball.

“What the hell! It's as big as the island!”

“Yeah I could destroy this whole island with this attack if I wanted to.”

Kyoya smiles.

“But I’m not that heartless.”

The ball starts to get compressed. It becomes way smaller than it originally was.

“Shadow Technique: Moon Stone.”

The ball floats into the forest. And suddenly, everything starts to get destroyed. The destruction of the whole forest catches up to Yuuto and now all Kyoya sees is dust. The whole of the forest is destroyed. The whole island saw that explosion and now everyone is getting worried.

The dust starts to clear out. Yuuto is still standing but he has bruises everywhere and his clothes are all ripped.

“Fair enough Yuuto. But sadly that isn't the only thing I have in my arsenal. You should know that.”

“Why do you think I started to run?!”

“Shadow Coating!”

Kyoya starts to get coated with his powerful Shadow Aura. Yuuto starts stumbling with his words.

“H-how?! You’re only 12 like me!”

Kyoya's left eye starts to glow significantly.

“It's the end for you Yuuto!”

Kyoya vanishes and appears behind Yuuto. Yuuto tries to look back but Kyoya leaves him no time. Instead, Kyoya elbows him in the back causing a few bones to break. Yuuto screams in agony.

Kyoya then dashes in front of Yuuto. He blitzes him by punching his chest. Yuuto is sent flying and once he lands, he rolls on the floor for a bit.

Kyoya starts charging up aura in his fist.

“Shadow Devastation!”

He is covered by his fierce aura and dashes beyond the speed of light to Yuuto.

“I'm dead here. And I didn’t even make up for what I done to Yua. I’m sorry.”

As soon as Yuuto is about make contact, the cloaked man from the other day appears in front of Kyoya and blocks the Shadow Devastation by catching the punch with his bare hands. It cancels the attack.

The wind blows the hood of his head. The person smiles. Kyoya starts to get pissed, yet he smiles with him.